Thanks to David Andrew for these photos, which you can view via Flickr here.
Month: August 2009
The Other Room: we never close
It’s a mere 6o days until the next Other Room on October 7th, so you really should start preparing. Why not get acquainted with the work of Michael Haslam, who will be one of the readers? Links to Crag Dworkin, the other October reader, coming soon.
Michael Haslam’s homepage here.
The Other Room 10 – aftermath
Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk gave us a magnificent evening on 5th August. Tony Trehy‘s photograph of Sean and Frances above.
Richard Barrett has posted more photographs here.
Matt Dalby has reviewed the evening and you can read it here.
Alex Davies recorded the first half and you can listen to that here.
Thanks to all for these resources and thank you again to Sean, Frances and everyone who came along.
Poetext
“Devoted to Poetic form – Inspired by Modernity.” Check out this new txt based project.
Poetry and practice
“There’s no creativity, there’s just decisions.” — Kenneth Goldsmith
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” — T.S. Eliot
“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” — Wordsworth
“Nor till the poets among us … can present … ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them,’ / shall we have / it.” — Marianne Moore
“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.” — Gertrude Stein
You can vote for one of these, should you be so inclined, at readwritepoem.
The Other Room – Sean Bonney / Frances Kruk
Is on tonight @ 7. See you there.
Poetry as sound, poetry for the page.
“The sound of the words spoken aloud is itself the meaning, just as the sound of the notes played on the proper instruments is the meaning of any piece of music.” Basil Bunting.
Silliman has things to say.
The Commons set 3
Sean Bonney has started to post the next series of The Commons on his website. For those of you yet to check out this work, you can download set 2 free of charge off the Openned website.
Via Openned.
Sean will be reading at The Other Room this Wednesday at 7PM, with Frances Kruk.
otherroom.org 